Lossless Files Vs CD's


I'm curious as to how much difference have you been able to hear. Is one clearly better than the other? What are the pro's and con's of each from your chair?
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Showing 1 response by electroslacker

The analogy of ripping to a Xerox copy is flawed. There is loss in copying a non-digital source, but there can be exact copying of a digital source.

If the digital computer file->DAC had been invented first, and then someone designed a way to copy the bits to a ten cent piece of plastic, spin it at high speed and bounce a laser beam off it, we'd see it as a Rube Goldbergian sow's ear, and inherently problematic.